help burning linux liveos iso!

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help burning linux liveos iso!

I downloaded the fedora-linux-os iso. Then I tried burning that iso to a CD, but the CD is too small, then I try a DVD, but Nero says the iso can only be burned on a CD.
So now I figure I need to burn a selected few files from the iso to the CD. But I don't know which ones they are, and I don't want to waste CD after CD trying to figure it out.
Here is the FS of the iso:

I agree with Elysia, it's way too large nowadays, got too many features for the average user and crashes inadvertently by causing illegal operations (quite regularly in the later versions)

CloneCD and ImgBurn are by far the best simple burners.

Also, remember to do a md5 checksum of the file before burning, otherwise you are going to have fun when it's halfway installing and there is an error, also check the cd after burning with the fedora tools before installing

Basically, you have to burn it as an image. You can't just copy all of the files to the disk and try to burn it.

Also, try to use a good-quality CD. Using cheap CDs and (especially) DVDs, I sometimes have to burn six or seven of them before I get a good disk.

Note that if the disks are bad in different places, you can get to the bad place, swap out CDs, and choose "try again", and Linux won't know the difference. Oftentimes the disks go bad in exactly the same places, however, due to hardware flaws. Using disks from different packages helps.

Really, if you think about it, what are the chances of burning 700MB of data without messing up a single bit? It's amazing you ever get good disks at all.

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- Alan Perlis
"Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -- John Powell

I haven't had any problems with Nero 7... I agree it's bloatware but it does everything I want it to do.

I have just had a lot of troubles with Nero 7. It always ejects the Tray when a something fails, which is just plain annoying (Nero 6 had the option to turn that off). It also didn't want to burn properly. Not to mention you have to download everything just to use the burner.
The "sweetness" of the GUI sucks. The filelist is so darn buggy.

Really, if you think about it, what are the chances of burning 700MB of data without messing up a single bit? It's amazing you ever get good disks at all.

Back in 1994 when a CD burner cost $1000 our gaggle of local geeks used to hold "burn fests" where we'd try to swap as much data between each other as possible over the course of a single, very rowdy night. With 1x burn speeds this obviously required multiple CDR drives to be practical.

50% of the discs came out as coasters.

Did I mention rowdiness? One drunk guy managed to walk right into the extended CD tray of one of the burner drives, snapping it off. These days you'd buy a new burner. Those days, it was heart-attack inducing. Imagine a crowd of 15 geeks crammed into a dark basement hovering over a brightly lit table like something out of the X-Files, with this thousand dollar burner disassembled in pieces, trying to fix the tray drive mechanism. We scavanged a tray and some gears from a standard CD-ROM drive and put the thing back together. It worked.